Features

1. Support for multiple phone numbers

We have expanded the phone number fields in patient records to allow users to add four distinct telephone number types, allowing for a more comprehensive approach to communication. Users are able to mark which of the telephone numbers is the primary number to streamline contact and ensure that others can easily reach the patient when it matters most.

Updating telephone numbers is very simple. Patients can follow these easy steps to take advantage of our enhanced Profile page:

1. Log into your PKB record

2. Navigate to the settings page

3. Locate the ‘Phone Numbers’ section

4. Enter the type of number you want to add into the corresponding field (mobile, home, work or other)

5. Use the radio buttons to select which of the phone numbers should be treated as your primary number

6. Enter your password and click ‘Save’ at the bottom of the page

2. Updating mandatory fields on the ‘Profile’ page

We have updated some fields on the ‘Profile’ page to no longer be mandatory. The following fields are now optional:

• Title 

• Address line 1

• City 

• County, province or state 

• Postcode 

• Gender

3. Consultations renamed to Questionnaires in the professional and coordinator UI

The ‘Consultations’ page for professionals and coordinators is being renamed to ‘Questionnaires'. The ‘Start consultation’ button will now say ‘Send questionnaire’ and all references to ‘consultations’ in the professional and coordinator UI will now refer to ‘questionnaires’. Patients will still see a ‘Start consultation’ button in their record, as by initiating a questionnaire they are consulting their team online. You can read more about these changes and other upcoming changes in our blog post.

Bug fixes

1. Issue with phone number constraint preventing some users from registering

We have fixed a bug that prevented some patients from completing registration. A record can have one phone number of each type but if an additional phone number was added to a record via HL7, this constraint was violated causing an error state that blocked registration.

2. Advanced questionnaires

We have resolved an issue which meant that clinical teams belonging to PKB Organisations with a comma in their name could not send advanced questionnaire requests via the $send-questionnaire-request operation. These teams can now send questionnaire requests.